Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Princetown has yet to put a famous person on the list
Nearby, Tavistock, 7 mi away, lists 34, led by Francis Drake. Across Devon, the lists cover 83 towns. No town in Devon lists more than Plymouth, with 565. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Princetown’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Princetown yet.
Famous people born near Princetown
The most names next door are in Tavistock: 34.
Tavistock · 7 miFrancis Drake & 33 more
Ashburton · 11 miRichard Carlile & 8 more
Ivybridge · 11 miLuke Summerfield & 6 more
Chagford · 11 miJohn Endecott & 3 moreTWBuckfastleigh · 10 miThomas Willcocks & 2 more
Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel · 10 miThomas Ball Barratt & 1 moreBLSouth Brent · 11 miBetsy LobbQuestions about famous people from Princetown
Who counts as from Princetown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Princetown’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Francis Drake: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Carlile: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Summerfield: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Endecott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ball Barratt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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